Okahandja
Okahandja
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Okahandja is a city
History
Okahandja means the place where two rivers (Okakango and Okamita) flow into each other to form one wide one in
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A number of important historic Namibian people are buried in Okahandja, among them Maharero, Jan Jonker Afrikaner, Hosea Kutako and Clemens Kapuuo.
Economy
The population of Okahandja is growing rapidly. It stood at just over 14,000 as measured by the 2001 Population and Housing Census, and is estimated to have surpassed 24,000 in 2012.[8][9]
Von Bach Dam is situated outside of Okahandja. It provides the majority of Windhoek's water. An open-air curio market attracts tourists, and the town serves as the administrative centre for the Herero people.
Transport
Education
In the 1870s
The National Institute for Educational Development (NIED) is today situated in Okahandja. NIED was created after independence as the institute from where a new national system of education was created, replacing the previous racist system of apartheid.
Previously the German school Regierungsschule Okahandja was in the city.[11]
Politics
Okahandja is governed by a municipal council that has seven seats.[12]
In the
SWAPO also won the 2020 local authority election but lost its absolute majority in the municipal council. It obtained 1,865 votes and gained three seats. One seat each went to the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC, an opposition party formed in August 2020, 654 votes), the local Okahandja Rate Payers' Association (ORPA, 574 votes), the Landless People's Movement (LPM, an opposition party formed in 2016, 377 votes), and the UDF (290 votes).[15]
Sport
Okahandja offers the following sports codes; Soccer, Netball, Basketball, Tennis, Horse Raising, Dancing, Running, Gym, Spin & Drifting, Radio Helicopters...
In addition, local club
See also
References
- ^ "Table 4.2.2 Urban population by Census years (2001 and 2011)" (PDF). Namibia 2011 - Population and Housing Census Main Report. Namibia Statistics Agency. p. 39. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
- ^ "2023 Population & Housing Census Preliminary Report" (PDF). Statistics Namibia.
- ^ "Local Authorities". Association of Local Authorities in Namibia (ALAN). Archived from the original on 10 June 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ^ "Okahandja, a town in Namibia". The Cardboard Box. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
- ^ Otjozondjupa Regional Council
- ^ Dierks, Klaus. "Biographies of Namibian Personalities, R-Z". Retrieved 27 March 2011.
- ^ Okahandja History Okahandja.net, last accessed on 4 October 2017
- ISBN 0-86976-614-7.
- ^ Paulus, Paulus (24 September 2012). "Windhoek entombed in debt". New Era. allafrica.com.
- ^ Dierks, Klaus. "The Development of the Namibian Railway Network. The Rail History Until the 1990s". www.klausdierks.com. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
- ^ "Deutscher Bundestag 4. Wahlperiode Drucksache IV/3672" (Archived 2016-03-12 at the Wayback Machine). Bundestag (West Germany). 23 June 1965. Retrieved on 12 March 2016. p. 32/51.
- ^ "Know Your Local Authority". Election Watch. No. 3. Institute for Public Policy Research. 2015. p. 4.
- ^ Local Authority Election Results for Okahandja Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Local elections results". Electoral Commission of Namibia. 28 November 2015. p. 6. Archived from the original on 10 December 2015.
- ^ "2020 Local Authority Elections Results and Allocation of Seats" (PDF). Electoral Commission of Namibia. 29 November 2020. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
- ^ Wells, Chelva (14 November 2022). "We want to make it difficult for whoever visits Okahandja: Gariseb". NAMPA PR. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ^ Kambaekwa, Carlos (20 August 2010). "Alcino 'Shorty' da Costa - The Portuguese dynamo". New Era.[permanent dead link]